When Polly Thurston was born about 1744, in Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Thurston, was 47 and her mother, Mary Lane, was 49. She married William Cook on 13 June 1785, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. She died in her hometown.
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English (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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